What was nice is that, by nature of being period, we came before everybody else, whether or not we were coming out before everybody else. We didn’t have to accomodate anybody. We didn’t have to be: Oh, they’re doing that in Thor. We’re 50 years prior to that, who cares?

Über das Pflanzen von Samen für spätere Filme.

If I was writing a standalone movie, things would tie up neatly. You wouldn’t make reference to things that aren’t going to resonate anywhere else. You wouldn’t have Howard Stark if there wasn’t a Tony Stark in a whole different section of it. It’s this sort of opportunity to take things that you would have to do anyway for the movie, you would need a scientist, or a mentor … to kind of draw the threads that everything connects. For things like Winter Soldier, we knew it existed (…) so we did things to Bucky in the first movie …

They get to weigh in and we (…) don’t talk to them particularly and (…) Kevin [Feige] will filter their notes down (…). In some ways, they are the keepers of the bottom line standards of the characters.